Tony Hatfield's Retired Ramblings

Fairy Wings

Radar,has a wonderful description of the Bush Presidency- Tinkerbell. He adds:

Hence the administration’s war on science (i.e., actual knowledge), the latest salvo of which came this week when Bush announced his support for teaching in our nation’s schools “intelligent design,” the anti-evolution theory that some greater being—just don’t call it God (nudge, nudge)—created the universe. The people who believe in intelligent design are the same fine folks who have pushed for decades for creationism to be taught in schools, something Bush himself endorsed in Texas while he was governor. In the Tinkerbell presidency, details are heretical. Terri Schiavo will walk again, no child will be left behind, John Bolton is an honorable man, and the mission in Iraq has been accomplished. Creationism is a wonderful brand of fairy-clapping that includes true facts like that the earth isn’t 4.5 billion years old, only 6,000, and that Noah toted dinosaurs along on the Ark in 2500 BC. According to the pro-creationism website Answers in Genesis: “God sent two of every (seven of some) land animal into the Ark (Genesis 7:2–3; 7:8–9)—there were no exceptions. Therefore, dinosaurs must have been on the Ark. Even though there was ample room in the huge ship for large animals, perhaps God sent young adults into the Ark that still had plenty of room for them to grow.”

posted by Tony @ Monday, August 08, 2005